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I am a mid-life mother who works for my two daughters otherwise known as a stay-at-home mom. Our family grew with the entrustment of each of our daughters and their birth families. We live in very open adoptions. I am a blogger sharing first our journey to parenthood and subsequently our life today which includes me living with peri-menopausal symptoms and our raising two girls who are currently pre-adolescent with all the daily trials and tribulations of our wonderful family life. I am a one a day coffee drinker, and at least one a day wine drinker!

She sees us as part of her whole …

During this school year our second grader had a project related to social studies that included finding out your families ancestry. She had worked on this project speaking with both her birth mother’s family and her birth father. We learned from both sides she shared similar ancestry like being Scottish, Norwegian, Belgium and more.

Recently she and I were discussing what to have for dinner and the conversation turned into what you may eat if you are Chinese, Chinese food; Mexican, Mexican food; Irish, Irish food; etc. I then explained that that may be true when living in your home country but you don’t have to be that ethnicity to eat that type of food.

Her response was well I eat Italian food and I’m Italian. I looked at her thinking how I can respond to her as technically she is not Italian but I am. I asked her if she remembered her school project from earlier this year and what we had learned about her ancestry. She told me yes she remembered but that SHE IS Italian because I am.

I sit here today thinking about this conversation and being glad that our daughter knows where she comes from from the relationships we have with her birth families. It tells me she is not split on who her family is. She is confident in that she belongs to ALL of our families and we are all a part of her wholeness.